So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.

Remember when Google’s corporate motto was “don’t be evil?”

Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.

From Google: “Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can’t edit or remove the location.”

It’s enshitification in action.

Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP

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  • butter@lemmy.jamestrey.com
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    1 year ago

    I have a non pro pinephone. But it’s been a minute since I’ve used it. Where is it at with software? If I go home and update it all the way, which is the most usable OS?

    I’d love to make the switch